According Alexey Arestovich (a military advisor to the office of the Ukrainian president), the 3500 figure includes killed AND wounded.
This was clarified in a comment thread on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alexey.arestovich
This was clarified in a comment thread on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alexey.arestovich
It is pretty common for people to misinterpret casualties as deaths. Especially when people who are not familiar with the terms try to repeat the information to others.
So far, all I've really seen are recycled videos that seem to get reposted everywhere and used in the media, but very little engagement. I have a feeling that either:
- The resistance in Ukraine is actually very little, so the goal is to try to get people from other countries contacting their politicians to provide assistance. I've seen some news about certain groups being banned from leaving and being encouraged to join the army and about how they are providing information on state media about making molotovs.
- Try to make it seem like they are somehow winning by providing high estimates to try to hurt the morale of Russian soldiers.
It does seem like thus far Russia has mostly been focused on strategic targets, with some isolated civilian incidents. This makes the most sense right now considering that multiple superpowers are monitoring the situation and if Russia makes a wrong move by decimating civilians, then this could quickly turn into a world war.
You think?
(But yes, that's a huge discrepancy.)
[1] https://www.facebook.com/president.gov.ua/videos/37266901135...
The takeaway from the last 2 years is that you can't trust the media. It's all propaganda and lies. Unbiased, objective news died a long time ago if it ever existed.
All the "news" articles were full with unprofessional and for lack of a better word, angry or childish comments on the part of the journalists. It's as if the collective effort of the news media was to do their best to "stop" this thing, rather than report it, and to do so by generating negative sentiment.
I haven't seen instances of Wikipedia being that wrong before, but in their defence they did state their source, which was Ukrainian military facebook page via BBC, and that fb page did say that (even if it was later clarified that that wasn't what was meant in a comment).
Well spotted!